Photographic album



J. W. BEACKLEY.

Photographic Album.

No. 42,922. Patented May 31. 1864.

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JOHN w. BEAeKLEY, ORPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM.

Specification forming part-of LettersPatcnt- No. 42,922, dated May 31,1864.

To all whom itmay concern: Be it known that I, JOHN W. BEACKLEY, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Penn-- sylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Making Photographic Albums; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. The nature of my invention consists in so constructing the cards or leaves of a photo-- graphic album that double the ordinary number of photographic views can be put in nearly the same bulk or thickness of leaves and with very little additional cost of material, in placing the supplemental cards and views in the interior of the leaf, and in the mode of showing these views.

To enable others skilled in the art to make 1 and use my nvent o lh wi h, S 11 nitthe.v

following description of its construction and operation. i

Figure 1 shows the album cards, (as they are called in the trade,) or facings of the leaves,,with two sights, a a, or openings through which the photographs are seen.

Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 show the centers or filling pieces, made of card-board, (samethickness graphic cards, leaving the middle bar, 0, fixed at both ends. Fig. 3 is the same as Fig.2- with Fig. 4 cut out-of it. Fig. 5 is also the same as Fig. 2 with the middle bar, I), out free at the top only,-for the purpose herein- ,-after named. Fig. 6 shows the supplemental cards or facings h, with sights i i to expose the photographic views. 1 Fback to back,w ith'Fig. 4 (shown in dotted They are placed lines) between them, securely united at the edges k k'and perforated with a slot at'm, to allowv the middle 'bar, c, of center piece, (shown in Fig. b,) to slide freely through it. Fig,- 7 shows all the parts put together and ithesupplemental,cardsh drawn out-.

7 The leaf thus formed of all the parts just described is attached to binding of book at n n. The supplemental cards in this case are cilitate the process of drawing them out the edges of the cards a a, Figs. 1 and 7, and centers, Figs. 2 and 5, between which the supplemental cards slide, may have small pieces cutout, through. which they could be grasped by thumb andfingcr. mental cards can, however, be -made perfectly secret by dispensing with the notching,.as referred to above.

In this caseI- pI-opos'e to draw oututhclsnpplemental views by a hook or pair of small nippers, or equivalent device, the point of which can be inserted between the faeingsof the leaf, which must be left unsealed at this place to permit the insertion of the photographic cards.

1. do not propose to confine myself excl'u-- sive'ly to the plan described of exhibiting the secretviews, by drawing them from the interior of the leaf, but have devised methods of opening them to view on ahinge from a recess or panel formed in the face of the same. In this plan the supplemental card is. even or flush with that of the main leaf, which reccives it, and when the borders of the joint are ornamented ordinary observers would not be aware of any designed secrecy in the construction of the leaf. This and other similar plans, however, which have occurred to me I do not consider equal inpoint of economy of construction 'to that shown in the drawings,

nor so-pert'ect in their secret arrangements, because frcquent use would open the joints of the secret-leavesand reveal the devices which equally applicable to the medium size-i, e., twopictures in each leaf-aswell as to the The supplequarto size, in which the supplemental views may be either drawn from the top and bottom or from the fore edges of the-leaves.

My plan of construction cheapens the cost v of production and-reduces the \veightpf ulbums nearly one-half, and also makes them much more portable and eonveuient to handle.

\IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patei1li,is l

1. The supplementemds arranged to draw from or hinge to photographic-a1hum leaves, as specified.

2. The manner of. securing and sliding the card-frame h on the middle bar, 0, in the mam ner sh0wn..

J. W. BEACKLEY.

Witnesses:

U. Z. ()BERTEUFFER, J AS. S. LEVEY. 

